Beautiful Games: Hoop dreams

It's 123 years since basketball was invented in a gymnasium in Massachusetts, USA, and its enduring popularity has made it one of the cornerstones of American culture. Basketball courts and makeshift rings are scattered about the landscape at almost every turn, as the award-winning photographer
Robin Layton displays in this photographic homage to the sport. The characterful courts she visited are beautifully captured; even the most dilapidated of them still makes us want to pick up a ball and nail a jump-shot from an impossible distance. Check out Layton's book
Hoop: The American Dream published by powerHouse Books